One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...
An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...
"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...
New Scientist on MSN
Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history
Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...
An eye-catching pattern on the surface of Europa, an ice-covered moon, may have profound implications for our understanding ...
The work is described in a new paper, ‘The Moon-forming impactor Theia originated from the inner Solar System’, published in the journal Science.
'Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the moon. A new study has now analysed ancient lunar and terrestrial rocks to ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback